clinton himself, he says that clinton was the russian and. clinton himself was interested in russia. i think he and those around him really thought that they had eight years, at the maximum allowed to refashion russia and turn it into a democracy and market society that was clearly over ambitious. you cannot remake a society like that in eight years, and there are strong forces of russian tradition and history that have to evolve in their own way, but there was certainly an attempt to five more financial assistance, but also an attempt to get russia to buy into the u.s. view of international relations and european security which is why we had problems when we got involved in the war in the balkans. that first reset ended badly with the coastal war. so towards the end of the clinton administration, i mean, mr. yeltsin was quite sick. then mr. putin came in. the time i was in government was a downward time in their relationship. recognition in the u.s. that it had not been able to achieve what it wanted to do. the recent under president george